Tanya Tate (born 31 March 1979) is an English
glamour model
A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though ...
, writer, international
cosplayer
Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, ...
, and
pornographic actress
A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dis ...
.
Career
After beginning her porn career in 2009,
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Tate began contributing to a regular column for British adult magazine ''Ravers DVD'' in 2010.
Her alliterative stage name is inspired by her interest in comic books and how
Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which ...
similarly named his characters.
She is perhaps best known for her contributions to the
MILF
MILF (, as if read as "milf") is an acronym that stands for "Mother I'd Like to Fuck". This abbreviation is used in colloquial English, instead of the whole phrase. It connotes an older woman considered sexually attractive, typically one who has ...
genre, with eleven ''MILF of the Year'' wins.
Tate is also known for her appearances in
porn parodies such as ''Game of Bones'' (an adult parody of ''
Game of Thrones''), ''
The Incredible Hulk XXX'', and ''
Iron Man XXX''.
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Later that same year Tate made headlines in Ireland, after it was discovered that one of the amateur men who participated in the filming of her ]Television X
Television X (TVX) is a series of adult pay-per-view television channels in the United Kingdom owned by MG Global Entertainment (Europe) Limited. Until 2020, it was owned by Portland TV which was a subsidiary of Richard Desmond's publishing com ...
series ''Tanya Tate’s Sex Tour of Ireland'', was Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...
player Greg Jacobs. Tate travelled the countryside in a camper van meeting genuine Irish men and filmed both softcore and hardcore pornography. Jacobs denied that he appeared in the video, but then admitted, "I don't regret doing it", noting that he didn't want his parents to know. He appeared in the video following a dare from his friends. ''Tanya Tate's Casting Couch'' series ended in March 2013.
Tate directed her first film for Filly Films called ''Tanya Tate's the MILF Masseuse'' in 2011. Her work as director for Filly Films continued in 2012 with two titles ''Tanya Tate's Runaways'' and ''Tanya Tate's Tea & Muffin Party''.
Tate is outspoken about her industry and was quoted in a story about the 2013 AVN Awards for which she was nominated for an award. She stated, "If you are more popular with the fans, companies are more likely to book you for their production", and that "Being nominated for awards help build your recognition with your fan base. People that win male and female performer of the year are generally solid consistent talent that are open to many 'levels,' and some of these performers already have higher basic rates than others".
On 5 December 2013, Tate was the host of the 4th annual SHAFTA Awards at the Rise Superclub in Leicester Square. She was also nominated for several awards that night and won ''MILF of the Year'' for the fourth year running. Then in January 2014, Tate was France's Hot Vidéo
''Hot Vidéo'' is a French trade journal that covers the adult video industry. It was founded in June 1989 by Frank Vardon. It is now part of VCV Communications. Its average circulation date to 2011 is about 50,000 copies per month, while in the ...
magazine correspondent conducting red-carpet interviews at the AVN Award
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and m ...
s.
Cosplay
Since her 2010 San Diego ComicCon
A comic book convention or comic-con is an event with a primary focus on comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other. Commonly, comic conventions are multi-day events hosted at co ...
convention debut dressed as Emma Frost
Emma Grace Frost is a fictional Character (arts), character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most commonly in association with the X-Men. The character first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #129 (Jan. 1980), and was ...
, Tate has gained the attention of several media outlets, from Life.com, Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. is an American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three markets— creative ...
, KTLA
KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the seco ...
.com and the Orange County Register
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to BleedingCool.com, NerdReactor.com, Cosmic Book News and GirlsGoneComic.com, as a cosplayer
Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture, ...
. Earlier in the year, Tate was featured by IGN.com in an interview article called ''Tanya Tate: Cosplayer Extraordinaire''. In that interview, she explains how the stage name she uses for her adult industry performances was inspired by how comic book writer Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which ...
named his characters using the same letter in their first and last names. Tate was also named the ''Cosplay Girl of the Month'' by ComicImpact.com in April and in June was selected as Critiques4Geeks.com's first ever ''Geek Babe of the Month''.[
Tate's 2010 ComicCon appearance also resulted in the publishing of her first book, ''Tanya Tate: My Life in Costume''.] Tate has become a contributing writer for the websites WorldOfSuperheroes.com and Geekscape.net. In 2011, as part of her interest in cosplay and in conjunction with that year's ComicCon convention, Tate launched a costume design contest. The winning entrant won a lunch date with Tanya during Comic-Con.
Appearances
In 2013, Tate was the cover model for the Turkish version of ''FHM
''FHM'' (For Him Magazine) is a British multinational men's lifestyle magazine that was published in several countries. Its master edition contained features such as the ''FHM'' 100 Sexiest Women in the World, which has featured models, actres ...
'' magazine. Also that year, she was featured in two documentaries. The first was Deborah Anderson
Deborah Leigh Anderson (born 16 December 1970) is an English musician, photographer, and film director. Her early music work was as a vocalist on her father Jon Anderson's albums. Her 1995 single " Feel the Sunshine" was her first song that cha ...
's feature documentary and accompanying art book
Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that utilize the form of the book. They are often published in small editions, though they are sometimes produced as one-of-a-kind objects.
Overview
Artists' books have employed a ...
, ''Aroused
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'' (), a theatre-released film profiled the lives of several adult industry performers during the production of Anderson's photobook of the same name. It was released in cinemas in the US summer 2013 and internationally in January 2014.[Alison Wolf on power, politics and porn](_blank)
''The Spectator'' (22 June 2013). The second was for the United Kingdom-broadcast Channel 4
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television show ''Date My Porn Star'', where a film crew accompanied one of Tate's fans from Britain to her home in Los Angeles to meet the performer.[
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Other ventures
In early 2011 Tanya was a regular on Babestation
Babestation (labelled Babenation on the Sky EPG) is an adult chat television channel and programme block which has aired on television in the United Kingdom since 2002. Since 2015, Babestation has also had a complementary website that incl ...
, Studio66 and Red Light Central.
Since 2011 she has operated a cosplay-themed website and blog called justalottatanya.com. Tate also operates a publicity company.
In 2013, Tate began several partnerships and cooperative ventures. She announced a line of action figure
An action figure is a poseable character model figure made most commonly of plastic, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, military, video game or television program; fictional or historical. These figures are usually mark ...
s, unveiled a co-created comic book character, and syndicated blogs for HollywoodGoneGeek.com and FirstComicsNews.com. In April 2014, Tate's ''Lady Titan'' was introduced at that year's WonderCon
WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and film convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area (1987–2011), then—under the name WonderCon Anaheim—in Anaheim, California (2012–2015, 2017–present), and WonderCon Los Angel ...
pop-culture convention in Anaheim, California
Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the 10th-most p ...
.
In March 2014, a collaboration was announced between Tate and the newly launched ''cougars.xxx'' website owned by the Luxembourg based Lilly Devine SA company. CEO Moriam Hassan Balogun commented, "Tanya is not only an established professional with great ideas and a total understanding of what MILF fans want but also a major favourite within the industry". Then in April 2014, Tate began hosting a live weekly radio show on the Vivid radio
Vivid Entertainment Group is an American pornographic film production company, channel of the Sirius XM Radio
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sat ...
network called the ''Tanya Tate Show''.
Tate debuted her latest line of action figures, a customizable vinyl figure line called My Hero Toys, in October 2014. The new line of figures was announced at Stan Lee's annual event, the Comikaze Expo in Los Angeles.
Advocacy
In 2012, Tate appeared on behalf of the Free Speech Coalition
The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) is a non-profit industry trade group, trade association of the pornography and Sex industry, adult entertainment industry in the United States. Founded in 1991, it opposes the passage and enforcement of obscenity l ...
at a press conference
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for the "No on Government Waste" Committee, which opposed Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...
's Measure B
Measure B, also known as the ''County of Los Angeles Safer Sex In the Adult Film Industry Act,'' is the law that requires the use of condoms in all vaginal and anal sex scenes in pornography productions filmed in Los Angeles County, Californi ...
; the mandatory condom and health permit initiative.
With regard to Measure B, Tate was quoted in a San Fernando Valley Business Journal article to the effect that she would want whomever she decided to have sex with "to get tested until I felt comfortable to sleep with them without a condom," adding that AIDS Healthcare Foundation
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization providing medicine and health care to individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. As of 2020, it operates about 400 clinics, 64 outpatient healthcare ce ...
president Michael Weinstein (whom the article was about), "should be spending money on treating IDS
IDS may refer to:
Computing
* IBM Informix Dynamic Server, a relational database management system
* Ideographic Description Sequence, describing a Unihan character as a combination of other characters
* Integrated Data Store, one of the first da ...
and educating regular people about how to protect themselves instead of going after a small community that is aware of the risks".[
In response to Samuel Jackson's comments about ]RedTube
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, the free porn-sharing website, at a May press conference for his 2014 movie '' Captain America: The Winter Soldier'', Tate said that piracy impacts her directly because she produces her own web content. She stated, "I would gladly send a catalog of adult movies I have directed to Mr. Jackson if he would be so kind as to recant the comment".
In December 2014, Tate was outspoken regarding new regulations imposed on online content in the United Kingdom. In an interview she stated, " Female ejaculation being banned is not only a slap in the face to women across the UK, but proof that men making these rules do not see women as equals. The lads can enjoy a good pop shot, but should a woman come, all hell breaks loose". Another item listed as banned content was " Role-playing as non-adults" which prompted Tate to state, "Can you say, 'Oh you're a naughty boy?' Or can you not say that because you cannot role-play as non-adults? Can you call someone a 'naughty boy' or do you have to say 'naughty man?' Who is going to monitor this?"
Awards and nominations
Personal life
Tate has stated that she is bi-curious
Bi-curious is a term for a person, usually someone who is a heterosexual, who is curious or open about engaging in sexual activity with a person whose sex differs from that of their usual sexual partners. The term is sometimes used to describe a ...
.[Tanya’s Blog , Tanya Tate - Part 5](_blank)
Retrieved 5 March 2012. She is a cosplay enthusiast and uses an alter ego
An alter ego (Latin for "other I", " doppelgänger") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a differen ...
by the name of ''Lady Titan''. Tate announced her pregnancy on 16 June 2017. She tweeted that she gave birth to a boy on 30 November 2017.
See also
* List of British pornographic actors
A list of notable British pornographic film actors:
Female
Male
See also
* Outline of British pornography
* Pornography in the United Kingdom
References
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Notes
2014 Interview with Tate on Crave
References
External links
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Interviews
AskMen
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Pornstar interviews with adult actors answering some very nosy questions
Cosmopolitan
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Food and drink
* Cosmopolitan (cocktail), also known as a "Cosmo"
History
* Rootless cosmopolitan, a Soviet derogatory epithet during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign of 1949–1953
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interview with Tanya Tate and Samantha Bentley. Author – Catriona Harvey-Jenner. Published 3 May 2019.
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1979 births
English female adult models
English pornographic film actresses
English pornographic film directors
British pornographic film producers
Women pornographic film directors
Cosplayers
Living people
Models from Merseyside
Glamour models
Actresses from Liverpool